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The mind of God is one and harmonious; if, therefore, the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and he move you to any desire, then his mind is in your prayer, and it is not possible that the eternal Father should reject your petitions. To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient. Behold it, wonder at it, and bless God for it. Now, I do believe with him this morning, that the chief witness of God the Holy Spirit lies in this the Holy Spirit has written this book which contains an account of what a Christian should be, and of the feelings which believers in Christ must have. Do you shrink from it? Perhaps since matter may not be annihilated, and probably cannot be, but will be as immortal as spirit, this very world will become the place of an eternal jubilee, from which perpetual hallelujahs shall go up to the throne of God. Yet it is not the natural innocence of his heart, but the perfect mediation of the Lord Jesus Christ, which gives him this amazing confidence. There is not a star though it seemeth to sleep in the deep blue firmament, which doth not travel its myriads of miles and work; there is not an ocean, or a river, which is not ever working, either clapping its thousand hands with storms, or bearing on its bosom the freight of nations. He means that, if we were tempted by the love of life to deny Christ' we should be strengthened so that we should not deny him even to save our lives, for his people have been brave enough in this respect in all times. He said "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. Acts: An Expositional Commentary (Sproul) $18.00 . Again, cries Paul, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" For spiritual blessings which we know to be according to the divine will we could ask with confidence, but perhaps these would not meet our peculiar circumstances. Now, thirdly, and this is the practical part of the discourse, let us proceed to ADMINISTER TO THE EFFECTS. We are forced to use words if we would influence our fellow-men, but the Spirit of God can operate upon the human mind more directly, and communicate with it in silence. Therefore hath God, as it were, enlarged his arguments. I have left out the very essence, if I have not shown that it is a crime. Yours, in deep sympathy with all the sick and the bereaved. See how his father teaches him. If not, tremble, for there are but two vast families in this world. Consider the relation in which we stand to God, and then remember what God is; and after I have spoken of these two things, I hope you will see, indeed, that it is a sin to be at enmity with God. In the spiritual body, some are fitted for and called to one sort of work; others for another sort of work. II. "All things work together for good," but not to all men; they only work together for the good of "them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Have I passed from death unto life by the quickening agency of the Holy Ghost? Is not the wretch smitten dead? Like the marvellous structures of Palmyra of Baalbek, in the far off east, the earth in ruins reveals a magnificence which betokens a royal founder, and an extraordinary purpose. Today, also, we can preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, casting it about us as it were as our garment, and he that toucheth the hem thereof shall he not also be made whole to-day, even as when Jesus was among men? Will not such presumption as this be avenged? Therefore, our rights and our property extend to all things whatsoever they may be. "If thou be the Son of God." I have known a surly man act in that way; but Christ never turns us away because we only come to him when others fail us. At such times we should thank God for direction and give our desire a clear road: the Holy Spirit is granting us inward direction as to how we should reckon upon good success in our pleadings. So with the judgement I might prove how ill it decides. Behold his goodness that he hath spread before you! We are not at liberty to give or to refuse. I can see that death does not break the believer's peace; it seems rather to strengthen it. I remember a saying of old Matthew Wilkes: "Saved by your works! They bare their backs, the rod scourgeth them. and that man lives. Brethren, we can confidently say, then, hearing such a testimony as that, "We know that all things work." There is not only a sea in which to drown our sins, but the very tops of the mountains of our guilt are covered. So must we be, for we shall be made like him. We are like Jacob looking at the wagons, and the more we look at the wagons, the more we long to see Joseph's face; but our groaning after Jesus is a blessed groan, for. Here are two very wonderful challenges thrown out by the apostle Paul. If ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye bastards, and not sons; but, if ye be true sons, like to the firstborn, the rod will make you smart, and sometimes you will have to say, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Therefore do we say to that law, "Law, thou hast nothing to do with me; I am 'not under law, but under grace.' "Yes," saith he, "I will. If this be not yours, neither are the rest, for they are in the same indenture, and they are beg seethed to you in the same will. Is it wisdom, O my fellow-creatures, is it wisdom to hate your Creator? We believe in Christ, and so we come to be in Christ by our believing; and now we are persuaded that, to as many as receive Christ, to them gives he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name, and therefore all who believe in Jesus are beloved of the Lord, not because of anything good in them, but for Jesus Christ's sake. But the blessed Spirit does more than this, he will often direct the mind to the special subject of prayer. Whosoever loveth God, without doubt, is a Christian; and whosoever loveth him not, however high may be his pretensions, however boastful his professions, hath not seen God, neither known him for "God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him." heroism, where is it fled whither has it gone. That was his triumphant entry. Jesus must lose the reward of his agonies before we can lose the fruits of them. I feel that to the knee that dandled me and the breast that gave me sustenance, I owe more than I can ever pay; and to him who taught me, and led me in the paths of truth I owe so much, that I dare not speak of the tremendous weight of obligation due to him. But no, Camillus gathers together his body of followers, falls upon the Goths, routs them and enters in triumph into Rome though he was an exile. If it is robbing man to spend the money in pleasure wherewith we ought to pay our debts; it is robbing God if we employ our time, our talents, or our money, in anything but his service, until we feel we have done our share in that service. Brethren, we are free! "God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever." And yet God had a goodly land for him, and intended greatly to bless him. He has rendered more of good to men than you ever rendered of evil. He gave to us his heaven, for "where I am, there shall my people be." "The children of the flesh, these are not the children of God." Naturally we never will towards good without God, but God works in us to will and to do. God did as it were hold a bond against us which we could not pay. Is he omnipotent? But one more word, and that circles the argument, namely, that the work of the Spirit in the heart is not only the mind of the Spirit which God knows, but it is also according to the will or mind of God, for he never maketh intercession in us other than is consistent with the divine will. What consolation then to be called: for if I am called, then I am predestinated. If we drink in our nutriment from the world, we shall be worldly; but, if we live upon Christ and dwell in him, our conformity with him shall be readily accomplished, and we shall be recognized as brethren of that blessed family of which Jesus Christ is the firstborn. Shall we not, in some degree, repay the immense debt of our obligation by seeking to make the future also debtors to us, that our descendants may look back and acknowledge that they owe us thank for preserving the Scriptures, for maintaining liberty, for glorifying God? The apostle challenges the whole world, and heaven and hell too, in the question, "Who is he that condemneth?" We cannot be condemned for "Christ hath died. Come, men, put your face against all weathers; be ready to come up hill, with the snow blowing in your face, be ready to march on when the tempest howls, and the lightnings flash over head, and the snow becomes knee-deep; nay, be ready to go into the crevasse with him, and perish, if need be. What a mind that must be! It was because they longed to enter it. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of him who rose again from the dead? We pray evermore on such matters with this reserve, "Nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt." Yes, my lady, thou art a debtor to the poorest man that ever walked the earth. But the text, you see, furnishes us with a higher witness than this. The world is a great machine, but it is never standing still: silently all through the watches of the night, and through the hours of day, the earth revolveth on its axis, and works out its predestinated course. Christ digged the well to its very bottom, but not a drop did spring up; still was the world dry and thirsty, till on the morning of the resurrection a voice was heard, "Spring up O well," and forth came Christ himself from the grave, and with him came the resurrection and the life; pardon and peace for all souls sprang up from the deep well of his misery. All the troubles of a Christian do but wash him nearer heaven; the rough winds do but hurry his passage across the straits of this life to the port of eternal peace. And who amongst us has not been so foolish as to desire that there were no God? Angels know not evil; have never had to battle with evil known and felt within; they have not tried the paths of sinful pleasure, and through grace been turned from them, so as with full purpose of heart to cleave to holiness for ever. The tempest strives not with the peaceful calm they are linked together and work together, although they seem to be in opposition. IN VIEWING THE ESTATES we must remark that to our present apprehension they are divided into two parts, the first part of the inheritance is one which flesh and blood would fain do without it is the inheritance of suffering. "You know how you used to blaspheme his name." ", I. It does not always follow in human reasoning "if children, then heirs," because in our families but one is the heir. Can you heartily say that you can never rest satisfied till you. "What!" I am glad that you have them, brother, may you always keep them; and if I cannot have them, I shall sit down in my struggles and temptations, and still say that there is nothing in the heights, in high doctrine or in high living, that can separate me from the love of Christ. This call is sincere on God's part; but man by nature is so opposed to God, that this call is never effectual, for man disregards it, turns his back upon it, and goes his way, caring for none of these things. The text speaks of "our infirmities," or as many translators put it in the singular of "our infirmity." Enemies in the children's house? Let her, then, as Christ's queen, claim the earth as hers, and send her heralds forth from sea to sea to bid all men bow before him, and confess him to be their King. Hope operated spiritually upon our spiritual faculties, and so does the Holy Spirit, in some mysterious way, divinely operate upon the new-born faculties of the believer, so that he is sustained under his infirmities. We are not to be passive like wood or marble; we are to be prayerful, watchful, fervent, diligent, obedient, earnest, and believing, but still the work is God's. Open your mouth wide, and God will fill it! After this consummation the believing heart is panting, groaning, and sighing. "He that believeth on the Son hath the witness in himself," so that he can with his brethren say plainly "we know that we have passed from death unto life." The first witness is our spirit; the second witness is The Spirit, the eternal Spirit of God, who beareth witness with our spirit. "Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree." When Christ Jesus took away our guilt, and "his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree," justice was more terribly displayed than when guilty sinners sink to hell. We are debtors to the men who crossed the sea, and laughed at the fury of the storm, who risked the journeying, and the weariness, and all the various perils to which they were exposed, by reason of robbers and false brethren; we are debtors to each stake at Smithfield; we are debtors to the sacred ashes of the thousands who have there followed Jesus even unto death; we are debtors to the headless bodies of those who were beheaded for Christ Jesus; we are debtors to those who dared the lions in the amphitheatre and fought with wild beasts at Ephesus; we are debtors to the massacred thousands of the bloody church of Rome, and the murdered myriads of her pagan predecessors; we are debtors to them all. But of the Christian, it can be said, that he does not owe God's justice a solitary farthing; for Christ has paid the debt his people owed. As soon as the Israelite had plucked the first handful of ripe ears, they were to him so many proofs that the harvest was already come. and then, even if any charges should be brought against them, he defies all our foes to secure an adverse verdict: "Who is he that condemneth?" God is well pleased with the death of Christ as the vindication of his justice, and for Christ's sake he says to me, "I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee." A man might as well try to dispute him out of the fact of his existence as out of that equally sure fact that he has been born again, and that by gracious adoption he has been taken into the family of God. Ye are young princes, and ye have not been crowned yet. Do not you recollect how, in your schoolboy days, you used to make a little almanack with a square for every day, and how you always crossed off the day as soon as ever it began, as though you would try and make the distance from your joy as short as possible? There are too many thorns in your nest, to permit you to hope for an abiding city below the skies. That lie had in it a residuum of truth, for by sovereign grace we have become such. It was the father bruising the firstborn son; and, if you and I, brethren, are to be conformed to the image of the firstborn, though we may expect from God much fatherly love, we may also reckon that it will show itself in parental discipline. "Ah!" "We know that all things work." "He maketh intercession for us," and "He maketh intercession for the saints." If it be settled in our mind by the true witness the spirit within us, and the Spirit of God, that we are God's children, what a NOBLE PRIVILEGE now appears to our view. Consider what you owe to his power; how he has raised you from your death in sin, and how he has preserved your spiritual life, how he has kept you from falling, and how, though a thousand enemies have beset your path, you have been able to hold on your way! ), then it follows that God must be over all things and must control all things. I am the king of that inheritance, and without me doth not a dog move his tongue." There must be a change, if ye consider the future state; for how can enemies to God ever sit down at the banquet of the Lamb? If I cannot understand I will not question, for I am not his counsellor, but I will adore and obey, for I am his servant. Hath he joy? and silence reigns through earth and heaven. Has it lifted up your hopes, to hope no longer for things that are on earth, but for things that are above? He instructs us as to our need, and as to the promises of God which refer to that need. Again, I hear him cry, "Who shall lay anything to my charge?" This does not exclude even infants at the mothers' breast. "But thou hast stained thyself with lust." Cast your arms around the cross of Christ, and give up your heart to God, and then, come what may, I am persuaded that "Neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come. === Sample: Romans 8:1-3 === Romans 8 Some people talk about "getting out of the 7th chapter, into the 8th." Then, beloved, I have reason to hope that thou hast been called of God, for it is a holy calling wherewith God doth call his people. He cannot reverse his grace; it cannot be that the throne of condemnation shall be exalted on the ruins of the cross. Oh unhappy souls, that cannot call one of these your own! Thou hast lain among the pots, but he hat made thee as a dove whose wings are covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold. If he says, "Let there be light," the impenetrable darkness gives way to light; if he says, "Let there be grace," unutterable sin gives way, and the hardest-hearted sinner melts before the fire of effectual calling. 13:1-14. The sufferings of his soul were the very soul of his sufferings. Our prevalence in prayer lies in the plea, "Lord, do as thou hast said." They were, therefore, encouraged to take part and lot with Christ, the elder brother, with whom they had become joint heirs; and they were exhorted to suffer with him, that they might afterwards be glorified with him. "For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren." Fellowship in his sufferings is needful to communion with his glory. Others, this afternoon, by teaching your children in the class. "These are thy glorious works, parent of good, Thus wondrous fair; thyself how wondrous then!". who can tell what God is? ( Romans 8:1) No condemnation. You quenched conscience. This will appear in two ways. Who can condemn when Christ hath died, hath risen from the dead, is enthroned on high, and intercedes? And what is the third? And yet once more, another precious means of test in the first of Corinthians, the first chapter, and the ninth verse. was the means of his quickening. why art thou at enmity with God? Or look you at Cincinnatus. I want nothing more. And perhaps he goes to Eli to ask what he wants with him. He whose crown shineth the brightest, will know when he hath lost a jewel. So it is: prayer prompted by the Holy Spirit is the footfall of the divine decree. REV. Home; Shop. We find that the word "know" is frequently used in Scripture, not only for knowledge, but also for favor, love, and complacency. Happy will he count himself when he is able to preach with the living voice. ", "Ay, ay!" Oh for 400 Scoevolas, 400 men who for Christ's sake would burn, not their right hands, but their bodies, if indeed Christ's name night be glorified, and sin might be stabbed to the heart. "I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." Is he eternal? God bless you, my beloved brethren, and may you feel the Spirit of the Lord thus working in you and with you. What! I cannot stay longer on that point, except just to notice, that we must never quarrel with this divine arrangement. If you were a free man, and had married a wife, a slave, you could not feel perfectly content, but the more you enjoyed the sweets of freedom yourself, the more would you pine that she should still he in slavery. Why did not his imagination work when his body was in a normal state when it was healthy? The text says, "The carnal mind is enmity against God." So with the child; you may bind him with the green withes of education, you may do what you will with him, since you cannot change his heart, that carnal mind shall still be at enmity against God; and notwithstanding intellect, talent, and all you may give to boot, it shall be of the same sinful complexion as every other child, if not as apparently evil; for "the carnal mind is enmity against God.". Christ is entering into Jericho to preach. Dost thou love to pay him homage? Here is the full receipt; the resurrection hath rent the bond in twain. "What!" I look on them, and see among their glorious ranks, some whose names are celebrated in every Christian land as the bold "lions of God," the immovable pillars of truth; men of whom the world was not worthy, whose praise is in all the churches, and who are now nearest the eternal throne. Does he stand in the presence of God he appears in the presence of God for us; Hebrews 9:24 . Certainly, this wondrous ship of Christ's Church, when she ploughs her way through waves of blood, makes swifter headway to the heavenly haven than she does in times of calm. For memory graspeth with an iron hand ill things, but the good she holdeth with feeble fingers. But our liberty is incomplete. You were very low down, brother; we had to stoop to call to you; the waters of God's waves and billows seemed to have gone over you; you have been down to the depths, and I have been there with you. The law has, therefore, more than it asked for, and I am thus not afraid of the anger of the great God. And are we not debtors to them? yes. May God help me, this morning, solemnly to prefer this indictment against all! Thou Church of God, surely it must survive in thee; for to whom should it more belong to die and sacrifice all, than to those who are the sons of God. There is still another foe that answers your challenge, "Who is he that condemneth?" I owe no man anything after the debt has been paid, whether by myself, or by somebody else; and if Christ took our sin upon himself, and suffered for it, the sins for which he suffered are gone, plunged as in a shoreless sea, drowned in the Redeemer's blood. He will rather glory in his high connection, and with reverence obey the commands of his Heavenly Parent. This was in accord with God's plan. Satan was eager that the new-born child of grace should be put to death, and, therefore, sent forth fierce temptations to slay us; but the Lord found a shelter for our infant spiritual life, and preserved the young child alive. You discover that Christ had his cross, and you are asked to administer to the will. We shall see his face; the devils in hell cannot hinder it; we shall possess the promised rest, still the fiends that are beneath shall not rob us of the heirloom. If according to law we are only heirs-presumptive, whose rights may be superseded, then our great joint heir, so far as he is co-heir with us, is superseded also. And see what it is that we are heirs of. We ask, but we are afraid that we shall not have, because we do not exercise the thought, or the faith, which we judge to be essential to prayer. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and that child might be treated as his for a long time; but there was a second adoption in public, when the child was brought before the constituted authorities, and in the presence of spectators its ordinary garments which it had worn before were taken off, and the father who took it to be his child put on garments suitable to the condition of life in which it was to live. Who is he that condemneth." I do believe that there is a supernatural way in which apart from means, the Spirit of God communicates with the spirit of man. He gives to us his raiments, and thus we stand arrayed. He served his country, not for himself, but for his country's sake; and can it be that you will not be poor yet honest for Christ's sake! You and I are free, but what is our liberty? It is a strong expression, but as it is Scriptural, we cannot alter it; and we have no wish to do so. And now we close by noticing the confidence with which the apostle speaks. I do not wish for anything more than I have here, I am perfectly satisfied, so far as this goes, but I long to look upon my household, and to be once more in my own sweet home, and until I reach it, I shall not cease to groan." Who can condemn? But, it is further asserted that the Lord foreknow who would exercise repentance, who would believe in Jesus, and who would persevere in a consistent life to the end. It is the power of the Holy Ghost in us which creates all real prayer, even that which takes the form of a groan because the mind is incapable, by reason of its bewilderment and grief, of clothing its emotion in words. Then it appears if we are called joint heirs with Christ, we legally and strictly have no inheritance apart from him. Remarks on Beecher's Life of Christ. It is almost as good as Scripture; for Scripture leads us to think of the sufferings of Christ as an unfathomable deep. Perhaps after those great fires of which Peter speaks when he says, "The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat," earth will be renewed in more than pristine loveliness. Note the expression, "Many brethren" not that he might be the firstborn among many, but among "many brethren," who should be like himself. Then all thy love, as though there were not another to be loved, is mine, O God, and all thy grace, as though there were never another sinner to partake of it, is mine. Oh! A groan then is a part of prayer which we owe to the Holy Ghost, and the same is true of all the prayer which wells up from the deep fountains of our inner life. Let me feel the worm that never dies rather than the stings of an offended conscience, if indeed this is not itself, "the worm that dieth not." My unknown sins are buried in the unknown deeps of his almighty sacrifice. There in the midst of the arena stands the hero. So it is with those prayers which are all broken up, wet with tears, and discordant with those sighs and inarticulate expressions and heavings of the bosom, and sobbings of the heart and anguish and bitterness of spirit, our gracious Lord reads them as a man reads a book, and they are written in a character which he fully understands. The city has turned me out; let it rue the day that it ever drove me away." Now, observe that PREDESTINATION IS THE IMPELLING FORCE TOWARDS THIS CONFORMITY. Intended for Reading on Lord's-Day, January 24th, 1892. Let a man once believe that all the treasure within is his, and then the stouter the bolt, and the surer the lock, the better for him. 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